We’ll Never Attack Northerners, Non-Indigenes In South-East – IPOB Reacts To Military Memo

The Indigenous People of Biafra has said its members will never be involved in unleashing violence on northerners or any other non-indigenes resident in the South-East region.

The group, according to a statement issued by Emma Powerful, its spokesman, said it had obtained the copy of an internal memo from the Nigerian military claiming IPOB members are planning to attack northerners.

But Powerful, in a statement on Thursday, described such memo as a tactic by the Nigerian government to pitch Northerners resident in the region against indigenes and subsequently nail IPOB as a culprit.

The pro-Biafra group insisted that it is a peaceful movement whose members receive non-indigenes with open arms.

It, however, noted that those who are not welcome in the region are Fulani herdsmen who kill and rape innocent people.

IPOB said, “Based on the internal memo from the Nigeria military intercepted by IPOB intelligence unit the M.Branch, we the global movement and family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), led by Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to reiterate for the umpteenth time and assure all non-Biafrans resident in Biafraland and the general public that IPOB has no plans whatsoever to attack Northerners or any other non-indigenes living in the Biafran territory.

“As a matter of fact, Biafrans are the only race that will defend or take the side of a visitor or sojourner in our land against his own brother/sister because our culture and the land of Biafra forbid injustice.

”The reference no of the memo from the Nigerian military headquarters, Garki, Abuja, is AHQ DAOPS/G3/240/197/1, dated May 5, 2022 and dispatched to the 82 division, Enugu.

“This malicious and fallacious memo intercepted by our M Branch emanating from the Nigerian military is simply the figment of the imagination of the purveyors. We are aware of the avowed plan of the Nigerian Army together with other security agencies to instigate violence in Biafraland as well as other parts of Nigeria, and point their accursed fingers at IPOB a peaceful freedom movement.

“We saw them play this out during the Ghana-Nigerian match at the MKO Stadium in Abuja even though they had credible intelligence that Fulani terrorists were planning to attack the stadium. Their intention then was to create distrust between the Biafrans and Yoruba nation.

“Now they want to try same game by this attempt to create distrust and confusion between Biafrans and Northerners living in Biafraland with the singular aim of jeopardising and endangering the lives of Biafrans resident in Northern Nigeria.

“The Nigerian Army working in collaboration with the Nigerian DSS must know that their gimmicks and antics are dead on arrival because IPOB have continued to protect non indigenes resident in the Biafraland against any form of intimidation or attack from Fulani terrorist herdsmen.

“The IPOB leadership calls on all residents in Biafraland both Biafrans and non Biafrans to ignore this deliberate falsehood from a terrorist infested and discredited Nigerian Army Headquarters and unequivocally assure them of their safety and enjoin them to go about their businesses anywhere in Biafraland without fear of molestation.

“The only people that are not and will not be welcomed in Biafraland are Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen who are destroying our farmlands with their unclean cows, molesting and raping our mothers, sisters and wives farming in our bushes and forests and murdering our people doing their legitimate farm work.

“It is now imperative for the Nigerian military whose highest echelons as well as new recruits are dominated by Fulani terrorists masquerading as the Nigerian Army to recall their kinsmen occupying any space in our bushes and forests to vacate those places forthwith. The Nigerian Army must withdraw their terrorist foot soldiers sent into Biafraland as Fulani Herdsmen because there will be no hiding place in our land for them.

“IPOB is a peaceful freedom movement that is a given. However, we have a duty as a people to protect our land and our people against Fulani terrorist Herdsmen. We are not begging Fulani terrorists to vacate our farmlands and forest, but we will chase them out of our bushes and forests where they stay to kidnap, kill and rape our mothers, wives and sisters in the farms.

“The Nigerian military should be appreciative that we are helping them to stop Fulani terrorists, the fourth most deadly terror group in the world terror index, here in Biafraland formerly the Eastern Nigeria. But they will not because the Fulani terror herdsmen are their foot soldiers and one and the same with the Nigerian Army. In the North, Civilian JTF assist them against Boko Haram group and the army cooperates with them.

“We are aware that the Fulani and security men and women are the same people they should call their brothers to come out from the Biafra bushes and forests.

“Northerners and other non Biafrans living in Biafraland so long as you are not committing any crime in our land should not entertain fears especially the Hausa people living with us here. Biafrans have absolutely nothing against Hausa people and the Hausa community in Biafraland because they are also victims of Fulani terror and manipulation.

“What we are after are Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen who are raping our mothers, sisters and wives in the bushes and forests. The land of Biafra forbids that this generation will fold their arms and allow our land to be overrun by Fulani terrorist Herdsmen from the foothills of Futa Jallon.

“We are calling on the international community, Amnesty International, reputable human rights organisations across the globe, all diplomatic missions in Abuja, America government, British government, Russia government, Israeli government, Australia government, Canada government, German government, UNITED NATIONS (EU), European Union, African Union (AU), ECOWAS, and other relevant bodies under UNITED Nations to understand that we are not chasing non-indigenes living in our territory.”